Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae)
Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae)

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, japanese spinach with sesame sauce(goma ae). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Goma (胡麻) in Japanese means sesame seed and goma-ae (胡麻和え) is a dish that's dressed with the sesame sauce. The word ae (pronounced as [ah EH]. 和え) comes from the verb aeru ([ah EH loo]. 和える) which is to dress (the food with sauce). Spinach Gomaae as Easy Side Dish.

Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have japanese spinach with sesame sauce(goma ae) using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae):
  1. Get 1 bundle Spinach
  2. Take 2 Tbsp Sesame seeds
  3. Make ready 1 Tbsp soy source or Miso(fermented soybean paste)
  4. Make ready 1/2 Tbsp sugar

It is super quick to make, but very nutritious and tasty. It's best to make your own ground sesame using Suribachi (mortar) and Surikogi. Hourensou no goma-ae (菠薐草の胡麻和え) literally translates to "spinach dressed with sesame seeds". If that sounds simple, that's because it is.

Steps to make Japanese Spinach with sesame sauce(Goma ae):
  1. Prepare a deep pot with plenty of water and bring to boil. Meanwhile, wash the spinach well.
  2. Grab spinach leaves and dip stem part in boiling water for a minute and put whole spinach in the pot. Cook until it gets soft.
  3. Get spinach out from the pot and cool it in cold water. Squeeze the spinach and put in on a chopping board. Cut spinach into bite-size.
  4. Pour sesame seeds in a mortar. Food processor also works. Grind it until you smell strong sesame flavours, and mix in soy sauce and sugar.
  5. Combine spinach and sesame sauce and mix well.

With only a handful of other ingredients, it's a quick Japanese salad that's served as a side for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Spinach is tossed with a nutty sesame sauce. Note: In honor of the season, I substituted half the traditional spinach with chard. To do the same, rinse chard and drain. Hourensou no goma-ae, literally translated to "spinach dressed in sesame sauce", is a quick Japanese salad.

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